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WT: Paste multiple lines to Windows Terminal without executing

In the original PowerShell console it was possible to paste and edit multiline commands before executing it

For example this multiline script:

Write-Host "===== 1 ====="
Write-Host "===== 2 ====="
Write-Host "===== 3 ====="
Write-Host "===== 4 ====="

results in the following output

powershell 7 console with multiline paste

Unfortunately, in the Windows Terminal pasting of the same script results in a very different output

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Any ideas how to "fix" the multiline pasting in the Windows Terminal?

Solution

  • The solution for me was to just comment out a line in the terminal setting.json with { "command": "paste", "keys": "ctrl+v" }

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    And then it works - here the expected output

    working output

    Edit:

    After uncommenting the Ctrl+V chord in the settings.json, the paste functionality is ensured by the PSReadLine module (see Get-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Chord ctrl+v) but Ctrl+V will stop to work in other shells - use Shift+Ctr+V instead